Famous Irish-Americans

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Former Delaware Senator Joe Biden was elected the 47th U.S. vice president with President Barack Obama in 2008. He earned a second term as vice president when Obama was re-elected to the presidency in 2012.

This weekend the New York Times reported that Bill O’Reilly paid $32 million to settle a sexual harassment case. This was in addition to the $13 million he paid five other women that resulted in Fox firing O’Reilly in April.

Tim McGraw collapsed on stage at a concert in Ireland. "He's been super dehydrated. And I apologize, but I made the decision that he cannot come back out on stage," McGraw's wife, singer Faith Hill, told the audience. A spokesperson said McGraw will be fine.

Nellie Bly was an American journalist known for her pioneering reporting, including her 1887 expose on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell's Island in New York City and her trip around the world in 1889.

George Clooney was the highest-paid actor of 2018, according to ‘Forbes.’ The actor raked in a career-high $239 million pre-tax, not for his movie roles but largely thanks to the sale of his company, Casamigos Tequila, for $1 billion to the British liquor company Diageo last June.

Steven Spielberg may direct Leonardo DiCaprio in a Ulysses S. Grant biopic at Lionsgate. Grant served as commander of the Union armies during the American Civil War, later serving two scandal-rocked terms as U.S. president. He commissioned Mark Twain to write his biographies.

President Jackson’s portrait was prominently featured at a White House event honoring Native Americans; he’s known for an act resulting in thousands of Native American deaths. Trump also called Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas,” considered by some a racial slur.

Trump allowed the immediate release of 2,800 records by the National Archives. However thousands of other papers on JFK’s untimely death were withheld for “national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.”

Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, led America through World War I and crafted the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the last of which was creating a League of Nations to ensure world peace. Wilson also created the Federal Reserve and supported the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote.

Actor Bill Murray is a comedy icon best known for his popular 'Saturday Night Live' characters and movie classics such as 'Meatballs,' 'Caddyshack' and 'Ghostbusters.' He was nominated for an Oscar for his seriocomic role in 'Lost in Translation.'